Schefflera wardii C.Marquand & Airy Shaw

Species

Angiosperms > Apiales > Araliaceae > Schefflera

Characteristics

Shrubs or small trees, to 8 m tall, hermaphroditic. Petiole (10-)20-50 cm; petiolules 3-17 cm; leaflets 3-5, broadly ovate to nearly oblong, (12-)20-35 × 10-18 cm, leathery, abaxially densely yellowish or light brown stellate pubescent, adaxially glabrous, secondary veins 9-14 pairs, tertiary veins raised abaxially, distinctly impressed adaxially in dry material, base rounded, margin remotely to moderately serrate, especially toward apex, apex acute. Inflorescence a terminal panicle of racemes, yellow-white tomentose, sometimes glabrescent; primary axis 15-65 cm; secondary axes to ca. 25 cm; pedicels ca. 3 mm, to ca. 5 mm in fruit, densely stellate pubescent. Calyx densely stellate pubescent, 5-toothed. Ovary 5-carpellate; styles united into a column. Fruit globose, 3.5-4 mm in diam.; pedicels to ca. 5 mm. Fl. Dec.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 8.0
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color -
Blooming months
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Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

Light -
Soil humidity -
Soil texture -
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) -

Usage

Uses -
Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Mode -
Germination duration (days) 20 - 30
Germination temperacture (C°) 23
Germination luminosity light
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) -
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Vigor -
Productivity -

Distribution

Schefflera wardii world distribution map, present in China and Myanmar

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:92454-1
WFO ID wfo-0000306451
COL ID 4V7CW
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Schefflera wardii Agalma wardii